White, N. orcid.org/0000-0003-4520-7913 (2021) “Propaganda for peace”: a Gramscian reading of Irish and Spanish Civil War photography. Estudios Irlandeses, 16. pp. 125-138. ISSN 1699-311X
Abstract
At the outset of the Spanish Civil War, Ireland’s ruling party were faced with the challenge of maintaining political hegemony. Revealing the old fault lines of the Irish Civil War, the opposition cast the government’s Non-intervention policy as pro-Communist and anti-Catholic; a refusal to support Spanish insurgents in what was perceived by the majority as their defence of the Catholic faith. Following McNally, this paper utilises Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to explore political equilibrium in the contexts of the Irish and Spanish conflicts. The notion of the “organic intellectual” enables a Gramscian reading of war photography, finding common visual language in the works of Robert Capa and W.D. Hogan as they contributed to national and transnational projects of hegemony. Through such a reading, the author finds cultural compatibility between the conflicts and casts the Irish revolutionary period in new international light.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 by Nina White. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical License (CC BY-NC) | This text may be archived and redistributed both in electronic form and in hard copy, provided that the author and journal are properly cited and no fee is charged for access. |
Keywords: | Desmond FitzGerald; Gramsci; Irish Civil War; Photography; Propaganda; Robert Capa; Spanish Civil War; W.D. Hogan |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Performance and Cultural Industries (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 21 Mar 2024 10:31 |
Last Modified: | 21 Mar 2024 10:31 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses |
Identification Number: | 10.24162/ei2021-10072 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:210659 |